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Carl Spitzweg
5th February 1808 – 23th September 1885
Carl Spitzweg was born on 5th of February in 1808 in Unterpfaffenhofen, Bavaria. Although trained as a chemist, he discovered quite early his talent for drawing and his affinity with art. Spitzweg travelled extensively during his lifetime and the impressions formed by his travels greatly influenced his work. Shortly after completing his studies in pharmaceutics in 1832, he visited Italy. It was particularly in the cities of Florence, Rome, and Naples that he discovered the many significant works of Western culture which were to leave a permanent imprint on him.
A severe case of dysentery in 1833 strengthened his resolve to abandon his career as a chemist and he proceeded to commit himself solely to his painting. In June 1835, he became a member of the Munich Art Association and travelled that same year to southern Tirol with the landscape painter Eduard Schleich, the Elder.
In 1839 he completed his first painting entitled ''The Poor Poet'. Although this recurring motif would later be considered his most well-known body of work, the painting was not accepted at this time by the jury of the Munich Art Association.
As regards his graphic production, the first publication in 1844 of his own illustrations in the Munich weekly paper 'Fliegende Blätter' is considered quite significant. His visits to the Industrial Exposition in Paris and the World's Fair exhibition in London in 1851 were his first contact with the Oriental scenes which would begin to inform his work.
To the deserving painter were bestowed numerous honours during the second half of Spitzweg's lifetime: in 1865 the Bavarian Royal Merit Order of St. Michael was conferred upon him, and in 1875 he was named an honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts.
Carl Spitzweg died on 23th of September in 1885 and was entombed in the historic South Cemetery in Munich.
He leaves behind a body of work dedicated to the townspeople who inhibit his genre scenes, and with acute and pointed, but never ill-natured humour he portrays the everday bourgeois life of his time.
Lit: Siegfried Wichmann, Carl Spitzweg. Verzeichnis der Werke, Gemälde und Aquarelle, Stuttgart: Belser, 2002.
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Seltene nigerianische Nok-Figur
Rare Nigerian Nok figure. Nigeria 5th C. Terracotta. Parts lost. Age-related condition.
Nok figures are belonging to the eldest evidence of African sculpture. Little is known about the culture creating these impressive figurative representations with a clear accentuation of the head, which is also visible until our days in many of the younger African cultures. They did not leave any written records about the structure and organisation of their society or their religious belief. Nok figures are highly desirable collector's items and present in most of the museums and galleries for African art.
Characteristic for the stylised depictions are the elliptical or triangular shaped eyes with pupils indicated by deepening. Individual characteristics like beards, jewellery and extravagant hairstyles or headgears emphasise the artistic execution of these impressive human terracotta figures.
Thermoluminescence analysis report: Laboratory Ralf Kotalla, Haigerloch, 05.05.2014, 
Nigeria 5. Jh. Terrakotta. Halbfigur mit angewinkelten Armen. Best. Altersbedingter Zustand.
H. (mit Sockel)
Nok-Figuren gehören zu den ältesten Zeugnissen afrikanischer Plastik. Über die Nok-Kultur, die diese beeindruckenden figürlichen Darstellungen mit einer deutlichen Betonung des Kopfes, wie wir sie auch heute noch in vielen jüngeren afrikanischen Kulturen beobachten können, hervorgebracht hat, ist nur sehr wenig bekannt. Es sind keinerlei schriftliche Zeugnisse überliefert, und wir wissen kaum etwas über ihre Gesellschaftsform oder ihre religiöse Weltanschauung. Nok-Figuren sind begehrte Sammlerobjekte und in den meisten namhaften Museen und Galerien für afrikanische Kunst vertreten.
Charakteristisch für die stilisierten Darstellungen sind die elliptischen bis dreieckigen Augen, deren Pupille durch eine Vertiefung angedeutet ist. Individuelle Merkmale, wie Bärte, Schmuck und extravagante Frisuren oder Kopfbedeckungen, betonen die kunstvolle Ausführung der ausdrucksstarken Terrakotten.
TL-Gutachten: Labor Ralf Kotalla, Haigerloch, 05.05.2014,